Ms. Cicardo wants her students to remember the material they are covering in language arts. They will need the information in units of study throughout the year. To support their learning, she creates diagrams on chart paper and posts them on the wall for children to see. She provides a handout with printed instruction and explains the material as students look at their handouts. What is Ms. Cicardo using to help students learn and store the information and retrieve it later?
a. Generative learning
b. Dual coding
c. Elaboration
d. Reconstruction
Question 2
Stefano worked at his desk preparing his presentation for English class. He finished his rough draft and sent it to the printer. His printer only printed the first page and signaled that it was out of paper. Stefano decided to make a list of what he needed to get at the store besides printer paper. Then he realized that his route to the store takes him past his girlfriend's house. He thinks about stopping for a minute, but then remembers that he borrowed a tool from her dad. He needs to return the tool. This type of memory retrieval is:
a. spreading activation.
b. reconstruction.
c. a script.
d. procedural.
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels.
Vocabulary Development in English Monolinguals (EL1) and English Language Learners (ELL)
Students working in a group
Clever way to remember the first few digits of Pi
Frequency Analysis of Letters Used in the English Language
An example of continuous variation: biology students organized according to height.